[wisconsin] Fw: [acb-l] Recruiting Mentors and Mentees Part I

[Katherine Schneider]

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From: Mitch Pomerantz 
To: leadership at acb.org ; 'Acb-l' ; announce at acb.org 
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:27 PM
Subject: [acb-l] Recruiting Mentors and Mentees Part I


Colleagues:

The American Council of the Blind is working with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center at Mississippi State University on several interesting projects including one to ascertain the positive impact on blind and visually impaired college students of employed blind and visually impaired mentors.

I am posting the first of three flyers; this one is a general information and recruitment piece.  I would also urge those of you who can, to please  forward this information to your affiliate website or newsletter  to facilitate the widest dissemination possible.

It is my sincere hope that a number of ACB members will participate, either as mentees or mentors.  If you are interested, please direct all communication to Jamie O'Mally, at the telephone number or e-mail address listed below.


Sincerely,
Mitch Pomerantz, President
American Council of the Blind
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Subject: Mentoring Project Seeking Students and Professionals Who Are Legally Blind

 

Dear Colleague, 

 

We work at the Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision at Mississippi State University and we are seeking college students and professionals who are legally blind to participate in an employment mentoring project.  We hope that you will help us reach potential participants for this opportunity by distributing, posting, or forwarding the attached flyers to individuals or groups that might be interested.  Students will be paired with mentors based on location and field of interest, and we will examine the influence of a mentor relationship on employment outcomes for graduating students including: development of job seeking-skills, job placement, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy.  

 

We anticipate that students and mentors will find this program to be highly beneficial.  Potential benefits for students include: assistance in career goal development, skills training, job seeking, job placement, and opportunities for job shadowing. We expect that mentors will benefit from working closely with college or graduate students who are blind and the opportunity to assist in research that seeks to benefit the blind community. This research is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. 

 

If you are willing to distribute the attached flyers on our behalf to help us find participants, please respond and let us know. It is important that we reach as many people as we can across the United States, and we appreciate your help in spreading the word.  Please feel free to forward the body of this email to others that you think might know someone who would be interested in participating.

 

Thank you for your time and consideration of this request.  Please contact Jamie O'Mally at 662-325-2001 or at rrtc2 at colled.msstate.edu  if you have any questions or require additional information.

 

 

Thank you!

 

 

Dr. Jamie O'Mally, Assistant Research Professor

Dr. Brenda Cavenaugh, Research Professor

Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision

Mississippi State University

P.O. Box 6189

Mississippi State, MS 39762

662-325-2001



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